Pro and con: Right-wing media’s paranoia is mesmerizing; Left-wing media just part of the ruling political class

Even though I am no expert in political science or American history, I have degrees in both, plus I taught both subjects for many years.

I read letters daily in your paper from people who espouse the political talking points that are supposedly conservative: the stimulus failed; climate change is a hoax; abortion must be halted in all situations; etc. I have always made a point of listening to various opinions and watching all news outlets to form my own opinion.

For the previous three weeks, I immersed myself exclusively in the world of right-wing opinion. Fox News nightly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on the radio, the Drudge report, Wall Street Journal. It’s very seductive, indeed, to be told repeatedly that all other news channels are liberal and therefore evil, that national prize-winning publications are in Obama’s pocket, that (to use Limbaugh’s own words) “the magic negro” is taking our nation to chaos and that American values are crumbling before our very eyes.

It can be mesmerizing if you really believe you are being duped by everything and everyone else.

Thank God for the GOP and the so-called extremists; they are the only ones that seem to see what is actually occurring.

Too bad the mainstream media won’t report on it; seems they’re too busy sucking up to their friends in the Obama administration and Democratic party, hoping to be the first ones to get their notes on the next story or column to write.

The First Amendment provides for a free press. Unfortunately, it is no longer independent and doesn’t serve the people; it has become part of the ruling political class and only does what keeps itself powerful.

Sean Spurgeon, Plano

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